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• Finland Bakery Sells Dried Cricket Bread, Insect-Based Food Has Protein Than Wheat Load
• Finland Baker Launches Bread Made from Crushed Crickets
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Big Bucks
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• The World’s Largest Starbucks Just Opened in Shanghai, and We Have One Word: Wow
• World’s Largest, Most Lavish Starbucks Opens in Shanghai
• The World’s Largest Starbucks Is 30,000 Square Feet and Just Opened in China
• These 5 Giant Companies Control the World’s Bee…
Shore Things
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• Stunning Footage of Coral Spawning in the Aquarium at the Australian National Sea Simulator
• Fascinating Oyster Facts
• ‘Not Ashamed’: Dolphin Hunters of Taiji Break Silence over Film the Cove
• A Tidy Little Octopus Tos…
Work Developments
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• This Is the Least Productive Time of the Day
• The Concept of Productive Procrastination Is a Myth
• Germany Wants to Scrap the 8-Hour Workday: Here’s What You Should Know
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• Dream Job – Squishing…
Art Bits
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• Hustle Is as Important as Technique to Cash in on Africa’s Art Boom
• Yasunari Kawabata’s Surrealist Window on the World
• Social Media Accounts You Should Follow If You’re a Fan of Freaky Found Art
• While Men Are Failing, ‘Hidden’ Works by Women Are Being Re…
Pass the Cigars, NASA
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• How Will Humanity React to Alien Life? Psychologists Have Some Predictions
• What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
• Astronomers Want to Send a Probe to That Interstellar Asteroid, But There’s a Catch
• The Strange, Lumpy World…
And No Russian Doubt?
• How the Apollo 11 Crew Reacted to Lunar Conspiracy Theories
• Speech Recognition Technology Used to Analyze Apollo Mission Tapes
• The Lame Reason NASA Gave Up on Sending Astronauts to Venus in 1973
• NASA Creates Amazing ‘Chain Mail’ Wheel for Future Mars Rover…
Museums Amuse
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• Coin-Laden Pot and Rare Pendant Among British Museum’s Record Haul
• The Brooklyn Public Library Is Now Home to a Tiny Mollusk Museum
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Advice Columns 1
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• Carolyn Hax: Snooping in Husband’s Texts Just Confirms What You Already Know
• Carolyn Hax: What to Do When You Realize That You Sound Like a Braggart
• Carolyn Hax: A Mother Might Need to Discipline Herself to Pick Her Battle…
School Boared
• Students in Finland, the World’s Best-Educated Country, React to Japan’s Harsh School Rules
• Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Mascot Finalists Unveiled
• Japanese Elementary Students Will Judge the Official 2020 Tokyo Olympics Mascot
• Watch: Wild Boars Cause Havoc at School in Japan
• Wild Boar Shot Dead after Ra…
European Charm Offensive
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• For $61, You Can Become a Co-Owner of This 13th-Century French Castle
• Nobody Lives Here: Parts of France Where Nobody Lives…
• East German Village Sells at Auction for $165,000
• Picturesque Swiss Mountai…
Junk Food News
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• Hold the Pineapple: Naples Celebrates as Pizza Awarded Special Status by Unesco
• ISS Astronauts Make Pizza in Zero Gravity
• Astronauts Making Pizza in Zero Gravity on Board the International Space Station
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